Environmental Management for Sustainable Development

Environmental management is a wide, expanding, and rapidly evolving field, affecting everyone from individual citizens to businesses; governments to international agencies. Indisputably, it plays a crucial role in the quest for sustainable development.This comprehensively updated second edition explores the nature and role of environmental management, covering key principles, practices, tools, strategies and policies, offers a thorough yet understandable introduction, and points to further in-depth coverage. Among the key themes covered are: sustainable development, proactive approaches, the precautionary principle, the ‘polluter pays’ principle, the need for humans to be less vulnerable and more adaptable. Reflecting the expansion and evolution of the field, this revised
edition focuses strongly on sustainable development. There has been
extensive restructuring to ensure the book is accessible to those
unfamiliar with environmental management and it now includes greater
coverage of topics including key resources under stress, environmental
management tools, climate change and urban environmental management.
With rapid expansion and development of the subject it is easy for those
embarking on a course of study to become disorientated, but with its
well-structured coverage, effective illustrations, and foundation for
further, more-focused interest, this book is easily accessible to all.